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Travelers in the Third Reich The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945

Julia Boyd

This fascinating and shocking history of the rise of the Nazis draws together a multitude of expatriate voices—even Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett—into a powerful narrative charting this extraordinary phenomenon. Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Ben highlighted that the book compiles letters and journals of British and American visitors to Nazi Germany, showing many failed to recognize the regime's danger.

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Travelers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd... she found letters, journals, other contemporaneous accounts of basically British and Americans visiting Nazi Germany. And so what were their impressions?...

— Episode: Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy

Episode: Trump’s Head-on-a-Pike Foreign Policy

Ben highlighted that the book compiles letters and journals of British and American visitors to Nazi Germany, showing many failed to recognize the regime's danger.

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Travelers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd... she found letters, journals, other contemporaneous accounts of basically British and Americans visiting Nazi Germany. And so what were their impressions? Did they see, and you know, spoiler alert, way too many of them did not see how bad this was going to be or were sympathetic.

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